Susan Swindells is a Professor of Internal Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA. A native of England, Dr. Swindells earned her medical degree from University College London in 1977, with postgraduate training in England and at the University of Washington in Seattle. She has been involved in HIV care since 1984. A clinician and active researcher, Dr. Swindells has many years’ experience in translational and clinical research in the field of HIV/AIDS, with a special interest in tuberculosis co-infection. She has been the principal investigator on multiple clinical trials and published over 150 original research papers, editorials, and review articles. Dr. Swindells is on the leadership of the AIDS Clinical Trials Group of the National Institutes of Health, and is a member of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines. For more than 30 years, she has mentored many students, residents, post docs and junior faculty. She also devotes her time to capacity building for the international sites that she works with, and in support of community activities.
